City of bridges

There's more bridges here than in Venice I reckon - I wonder if anyone has counted them? Here's a sprinking from a 5 kilometre stretch on the inner-ring road. I think I counted 12, but not all the photographs will fit.

Actually, we'd have to start be defining a bridge because what you can see on the left are really elevated roads, as in, hmm, we need another road so we'll just put one up here, outside your window. So they're  bridges in one sense, in that they go over things (roads), but I'm not sure how long a bridge-over-a-road can be before it has to change its name and be called a road. I mean, if it's a bridge over an ocean, I think it can be 70 kilometres long and still not have its identity under dispute. And certainly the Penang bridge is 13 kilometres long, and no-one is arguing about whether that is a bridge. But the fact that water is underneath it does seem to remove all doubt.

More of the same kind of phenomena, but note the passing pedestrians. Definitely a footbridge. But how long does a footbridge have to be to start wondering if in fact it is an elevated walkway? Guangzhou has some quite long ones.

Cars above and cars below. It's not actually possible to tell where this footbridge, if it is a footbridge, comes down to earth. Maybe it doesn't - Hong Kong for example is full of footpaths from the 4th floor of one building to the second floor of another.

The shiny buildings come into their own on these clear sunny days.

It's the second last day of autumn and the sky remains blue and the pollution remains low - mainly coming from the cars on this ring road.  You can see from this that it's a myth that Guangzhou is a sea of people. Bits of Guangzhou are awash with people. The road underneath this bridge, for example. Other bits aren't.

This bridge must be fairly new, because in the main, when possible, the footbridges are covered in plants or planter boxes. 

This is the kind of scene that has helped me warm to Guangzhou. OK, there is a lot of traffic. It's pretty much as bad as Sydney. But look at the trees! They didn't have these in 1990, but now, they're everywhere. (OK, maybe they were here in 1990, but if so, they were very very small) 

And you can see the creepers creeping across the bridge from each side. When they meet in the middle, it'll look something like this....

Pretty, isn't it?

Which Sydney pedestrian bridges look like this?